The In-Between
Dreading
Episode 9
"Are you dumb?" May friend asked andZoey spoke up immediately.
"She's my new nanny" she said and the confusion on May's faces boosted.
"New what?" The second friends asked.
"Did aunt really hire you as a nanny?"
"Uh...g...good evening Miss May" Pim greeted nervously with a bow.
She heard May scoff.
"is aunt around?" May third friend asked.
"No. But she'll be back soon" Zoey replied, wriggling with the toy she held.
"this has got to be a joke" May said and touched her forehead restlessly.
She threw her bag on the floor and sighed.
Then, she came up to Pim and that was the moment she developed goose bumps.
She was standing in front of Pim!
Pimento took her eyes from the floor to look at May and her eyes ran into May sparkling eyes which were staring vacuously at Pim.
"Get out of here" she said coldly and left, taking the right staircase.
Like seriously!
Dezy one of May's friend brought out her phone and started operating it and walked away.
Bright and Janelle the other two friends just shook their heads and also left.
Pim turned and looked at Zoey immediately, her heart beating heavily.
"I told you she'd be upset" she said and shrugged and Pim quagmire increased.
"I...am I really supposed to leave?" She asked, worried.
"Well, that's what she said, right? But I'd suggest you just hang around and wait for mum. I'm sure she can talk to M-M" Zoey replied.
Pim placed her hand together and sighed. "I was so scared. I hope Mrs Linda gets back in time.
"Come on, nanny, let's wait in your room. You wouldn't want M-M to see you again" Little Zoey said in a soft tone and Pim nodded and followed her to the room.
She was so anxious. Mayor May had really seemed angry when she saw her.
"Will I be able to stay here?" Pim ask.
She kept looking through the window, hoping Mrs Linda gets back in time before May throws her out of the house.
After a while, Mrs Linda returned.
"Oh, thank goodness!" Pim inhaled.
Zoey suggested Pim stayed in the room while she went out and explained things to mom.
She left while Pim remained in the room with her hand crossed to her chest.
Pim spent a long time in the room, waiting for a reply from Zeoy but didn't see her.
Many horrible thoughts kept flashing through her mind.
"Could it be possible Mrs Linda has finally agreed to let me go?
Are they really going to send me away?"
Pim waited a little more time in the room until she felt, she couldn't wait no longer.
"I needed to see the condition of things for myself.
Pim left the room and slowly went downstairs. The only person she saw in the sitting room was just a house servant, cleaning some items.
He just glanced at Pim and took his eyes back to what he was doing.
Pim took in a deep breath and looked at the right staircase and slowly approached it.
She got on it and started walking carefully, trying not to be noisy.
The staircase was a bit long and wide, when Pim finished climbing on it, she quietly went to where May's room was.
She started moving toward it and as she did, she could clearly hear her voice and that of Zoey's mum.
Pim stopped, trying to listen to them.
"We've been over this, May" she heard Mrs Linda say.
"You know how stressful looking after Zoey is. And now I've finally gotten some one she likes, you want me to just send her away?"
"I just don't want any lady around me..."
"And why?" Mrs Limda cut her off.
"Talk to me May; why don't you want any lady around you?"
Pim couldn't hear anything immediately.
"Please; just take her away from me" She heard May say and her voice had sounded unhappy.
"Oh, God! What could be wrong with her?" Pim wondered.
"I'm sorry May, but since you won't open up to anyone, I don't know how I can be of help" Mrs Linda say and Pim quickly left the passage, thinking she might come out of the room in a minute.
Pim went to another passage and leaned on the wall.
May's words replayed in her head:
"Please, just take her away from me".
She had sounded bittered and disturbed.
What could the problem be?
why's she so scared of ladies now?
Or, could it be possible it was a result of the deaths of the girls she loved?
But, what could be the cause of their deaths?
What really happened to the Mayor May?